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Young newsreaders and those from out of town often muck up names. The lady on SEN Breakfast pronounced "Berwick" phonetically, and a young girl on 3aw pronounced "Milwaukee" as "Mill-wah-kee"
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Either a social faux pas or a brilliant bit of passive-aggression (given the speaker, I lean towards the former) in today's Crows - Eagles game from Mark Ricciuto to Matthew Pavlich, "You're allowed to start the year a bit slow when you've won the flag, aren't you Pav?"
Not sure it exactly belongs here, but the ad for some car company on SEN catch phrase - "expect perfection, experience amazing"
I would've thought amazing is a downgrade on perfection. Unless I'm misinterpreting it.
I would've thought amazing is a downgrade on perfection. Unless I'm misinterpreting it.
"There's an opportunity for the wicket to be taken, and it has been done so." - Mel Jones, commentating on tonight's Australia-Sri Lanka cricket World Cup warm up match.
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On Sunday on 3aw, Jimmy Bartel twice said "ammickle" instead of "amicable". "It was an ammickle decision"
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Spud said "transgress" instead of "digress" 3 times last night on SEN
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When interviewing young basketball player RJ Hampton, Garry Lyon referred to Golden State as the "Golden Nuggets" 
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Heaps of people say "hone in" instead of "home in". As Gerard Healy said about it, we having homing pigeons, not "honing pigeons"
GArry confused witht he Denver Nuggets?
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I think he got confused with chicken
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gambling guy on RSN referred to louis oosthuizen as louis Oostenhousen
Unfortunately tonight we are going to have to put up with Michael Clarke saying "briyant" 7 times a minute. Clarkie, every time you say it I die a little inside mate! For the sake of my mental health can you please stop?
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I've been listening to the BBC commentary on ABC Grandstand, and only turn up the tv if they appear to be talking about something different, like a replay of something specific
I would if I could but as I'm watching on-line the coverage is delayed by about 30 seconds and it's too much faffing around to get it all to sync up. I'm getting all the matches free as well so I guess I shouldn't complain too much about Clarkie's mangling of the language.
And I'm thankful Slater is not doing all the matches, recently he has started sounding like the love child of Julian Clary and Ian Chappell impersonating Bradman.
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Yes, that's annoying. Oh, are you in Japan? I was gunna say that Macquare radio and SEN are also doing most games (Macquarie are doing mostly just Aus games), but I guess they would also be on delay on line. I have a listen later tonight
I went through a stage where I'd record the tv and play it on a slight delay so it would be in sync with the radio, but these days I usually can't be bothered. This wasn't so much that I hated the tv commentators, more so because I'd be potting around the house listening to the radio, then could get to the tv in time if something happened.
Yes in Japan. I used to sync it up but you'd spend 5 minutes getting it right and then the audio and/or the video would buffer and you'd be back to square one. The far better solution is to get Michael Clarke to say "brilliant" correctly and obviate my need to flounce around the house bemoaning the impending bogan takeover of 'Straya!
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Ha. Tweet him or the station about it; you might be surprised how comments about stuff like that get noticed
I hate hearing Slater speak as much as I used to love watching him bat.
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Yeah nah, both SEN+ and Macquarie Sport on line are about 40 seconds behind the free-to-air picture on Ch 92
Basil on the footy tonight has called debutant Cameron as the first West Coast player born this century.
I know the media do this all the time but Cameron was born 3rd May 2000. That is the last year of the 20th century.
Why can't they just understand what they are saying.
I know the media do this all the time but Cameron was born 3rd May 2000. That is the last year of the 20th century.
Why can't they just understand what they are saying.
I noticed Kane Cornes does this a bit too, Cranbourne is "Cran-BORN"
